LLM Reference

Starling LM 7B Alpha

Released
2024-02-05
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 16d ago

Starling LM 7B Alpha has model metadata, but missing tracked provider pricing keeps it from being a default production pick.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 8k context window

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Released
2024-02-05
Context
8k
Parameters
7B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Training
finetuned
Created by

Human-compatible AI development leader

Berkeley, California, United States
Founded 2016
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

Starling-LM-7B-alpha is an advanced large language model developed by Berkeley NEST, utilizing the Openchat 3.5 framework, which builds on Mistral-7B-v0.1. It incorporates Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF) and is fine-tuned with the Nectar dataset, comprising 183,000 chat prompts and 3.8 million pairwise comparisons. It excels in conversational tasks, scoring 8.09 on the MT Bench benchmark, surpassing most models except OpenAI's GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo. Despite its prowess in dialogue, content generation, and question answering, it struggles with reasoning and mathematics and sometimes produces verbose responses or is vulnerable to jailbreaking prompts, highlighting areas for potential enhancement 1 2 3.

Starling LM 7B Alpha is a model in the Starling Alpha family. The structured metadata tracks a 8k-token context window. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Starling LM 7B Alpha yet.

Top use-case fit

No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

Rankings & picks(5)